Counting-register



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' J. W; JO-NES Z& Ai-GOOPER.

COUNTING REGISTER. No. 295,768. v Patented Mar. 25, 1884.

INVENTOR NITED STATES PATENT Di ries.

COUNTING- REGISTER.

SPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,768, dated March 25, 1884.

Application filed November 1,1883. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JOSHUA W. J ONES and ALBERT Ooornn, citizens of the United States, residing at Harrisburg, in the county of Danphin and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Counting-Register and we do hereby declare thatthe following is such clear, full, and exact description of the same as, with the aid of the accompanying drawings, will enable skillful artisans to make and use our said invention.

Our said invention comprises the following novel and useful features: first, the combination, with the actuating ratchet-wheel, its driving-pawl, and the units-wheel permanently attached, of the back-plate provided with a series of equally-inclined studs, each having a circular rib concentric therewith, with the plane of its edge at right angles to the axis of the stud, and a series of removable registering-wheels mounted on said studs and kept upon said ribs, as hereinafter fully set forth; second, the combination, with said ratchetwheel, driving-pawl, and units-wheel, of the back-plate provided with a series of equallyinclined studs, each having a circular rib concentric therewith, with the plane of its edge at right angles to the aXis of the stud, and a series of overlapping Genevastop registeringwheels mounted on said studs, each having its driven teeth on its under side, said teeth resting upon the said rib and constituting a bearing for the wheel, whereby, with the aid of the exteriorly-applied keeper, the removable wheels are prevented from. twisting out of line and out of gear with each other.

In the further description, reference is made to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a perspective view of our device as in condition for registering, with keeper closed, and lever provided with extension for attachment to any suitable part of machine whose motion is to be denoted or counted. Fig. 2 represents a front view of the same, with keeper laid open and two of the counters displaced, as when resetting the same to start a new count. Fig. 3 represents a rear side view of the same. Fig. 4. represents a rear side view of the drive-wheel. Fig. 5 represents a rear side view of one of the similar stop-gears. Fig. 6 represents a tranverse section of the drive-wheel, supporting plate or wall, ratchet, and actuating-lever on shaft. Fig. 7 represents the torsion-spring and stop. Fig. 8 represents a longitudinal section, made by a plane passed through and parallel with the axes of the journal-studs.

Similar references denote similar throughout the several views.

Letter A denotes the supporting back plate; A, the holes therein for attaching-screws, and D lugs thereon for the same purpose.

Letters a 0 p q denote fixed studs on said plate, having their axes parallel with each other and in a straight line. Each of said studs has a circular rib, l, concentric therewith on said plate, and the plane of the edge of said rib is at right angles to the axis of the stud. Said ribs edges are therefore also parallel with each other, and said back plate is thereby regularly graded or stepped, as supports for the Geneva-stop registeringwheels N, hereinafter described. Said wheels are removable, and have the circle of their driven teeth 9 on their under side of diameter equal to that of said circular rib, and less than the periphery of said wheels, that they may be readily handled in beginning a new count.

Wheel Z is fixed on shaft in, which latter has its bearing in the plate A, and at right angles thereto. The wheels N are kept on their studs by the keeper B when closed, which is recessed to serve, when open, as a receptacle for the wheels N when displaced. Any suitable clasp, B, may hold the keeper closed. It admits, as shown, the studs a 0 p q and front end of shaft m through it; but the same may be shortened, and then they will only abut against the keeper when closed. Said keeper has in it the peep-holes a b 0 cl e, for exhibiting thereat only one numeral at a time, the numerals being marked on the faces of the wheels N Z. Said wheels, marked with the characters 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0, direct and reversed in motion, thus become counters. The figures 2 and 7 stand next the single tooth H on the peripheries of the wheels N Z, arranged alternately, since the neighbor wheels rotatein opposite directions. They are thus parts marked that when said teeth H are arranged to be in line with the axes of the studs n 0 p q, and shaft on, the ciphers (0) may all stand vertical or in view through the peep-holes a b 0 cl 0, and thus can be readily so placed in beginning a new count.

That the figures on any driven counter may not fail through lost motion to come up to said holes promptly, the circle of the driverdisk is made larger than the circle of teeth I The drive-gear Z has its periphery provided with a single tooth, II, midway in a notch, like the stop-wheels N; but it lacks the teeth g, with concave bearings and spaces between them, as shown in Fig. 5, which represents one of the similar stop-gears N. The operation of said stop-gears N is simply an intermittent rotary movement communicated by the tooth H, which advances the next higher vgear in the numeration one-tenth of a rotation, the latter being stopped in the intervals of advancement by the concave bearings abutting against the toothless part of the cireular periphery, the wheels being arranged as shown.

The shaft \V of drive-wheel Z is made last thereon, and is cylindrical where it serves as ajournal in the plate or wall A, and where the lever V works on it; but it is angular at \V', Fig. 4, where the ratchet-wheel S is at tached thereon. The lever V has pivoted to it at R the pawl 1%, which catches in one of the ten teeth of the ratchet-wheel S, and the latter is moved by it onetenth of a rotation at each stroke of said lever V, as follows: The torsion-spring L on a stud, Y", on plate A, has its foot set against stud 7.1 on the said plate, and it has its head set to bear against the teeth of the ratchet-wheel S, and thus prevent backlash after the pawl R has acted. The head of the said spring is turned squarely out from said plate A, and forms a projection, 1, which serves as an elastic stop for the lever V, thus guarding that the pawl R shall take only one tooth at a time 011 the ratchet-wheel. To ease the force of contact with said lever, the wire rod G is inserted into it as a chill at V, so that by forming an eye, G, thereon, or by any other suitable connection, it may be joined to a crank, or other part of mechanism, in a pliant manner. In case the said lever is tripped by simply being touched by some moving part of a machine, or by collision, the extension G may be bent as shown in Fig. 3, to receive said contact. A gum band, K, or its equivalent, embracing a stud, V, on lever V and the stud 7.', serves to retract said lever after it is tripped. It is stopped in the opposite direction against Y L.

Our device is applicable for many purposes wherever the throw, revolution, or collision of mechanism can be coupled to actuate it, and thus count and register the number, as of sheets run from a press, of articles stamped from a self-inker for hand-stamps, of deposits in self-closing rare-boxes, 860. We do not, therefore, limit the application of our device.

\Ve claim 1. The combination, with the ratchet-wheel, driving-pawl, and units-wheel, of the back plate provided with a series of equally-inclined studs, each having a circular rib concentric therewith, with the plane of its edge at right angles to the axis of the stud, and a series of registering-wheels mounted on said studs and kept upon said ribs, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination, with the ratchet-wheel, driving-pawl, and units-wheel, of the back plate provided with a series of equally-inclined studs, each having a circular rib concentric therewith, with the plane of its edge at right angles to the axis of the stud, and a series of overlapping Geneva-stop registeringwheels mounted on said studs, each having its driven teeth on its under side, said teeth being kept upon the circular rib and constituting a bearing for the wheel, whereby the wheels are prevented from twisting out of line and out of gear with each other when the keeper is closed against them, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

JOSHUA \V. JONES. ALBERT COOPER.

Attest:

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